Parents in WA, ID, and UT are Ditching Normal Baby Names for These

There are a lot of things you have to worry about when preparing to have a baby. And their name is one of those things that will stick with them their whole life unless your kid hates the name so much that they change it as soon as they can.

You have to worry about the initials meaning something, words that rhyme with the name that will become their nickname or the name they are teased by through school.

You also have to worry about whether the name is unique enough that they don’t share it with any of their peers. To get past the last hurdle, parents are going with extremely unique names in hopes that their child won’t share a name with anybody else.

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But in an effort to be unique, some parents are just being weird. Actually, the names listed below could probably fall into some level of child abuse.

These are the top 3 most unusual baby names for boys and girls in Idaho, Washington, and Utah

These names aren’t even weird spellings of traditional names. These are names that feel like the parents pulled letters from a bag and then placed them in an order that was pronounceable.

Some of the names have roots in the history or geography of the state. Like Alta and Hyrum in Utah or Riggins in Idaho.

These are the Most Unusual Names in Utah, Washington, and Idaho

And to be honest here, I like the Utah names, and Idaho with Kove for the boys and Mesa for the girls (that’s Spanish for a table BTW) are nothing compared to EVERY NAME ON THE LIST for Washington State. Here's the list from TheFW.

I’d love to hear each parent’s reasoning for choosing one of these names. Maybe our inability to understand the youth of today is due to the equally strange names they were given.

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